Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-10
A FINE EFFORT.
AN IMAGINATIVE WRITER CONCOCTS "A
REMARKABLE CASE"
Locating Il in the Wilds Of Richie County
General News From The lntTiOr
Of the Stats.

burg. Ten years ago Mrs. Ada Martin
fractured one of her limbs so severely as
to cause permanent paralysis of it and de-
prived her of her power of speech. During
the period Of her affliction she has been
making crazy quilts and endeavoring to get
patches from prominent men. Presidents
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur sent her
patches. Many Senators, Army officers
and other notables have favored her. A
day or two ago she received patch from
President Cleveland, with his compliments
geographically expressed. Her pleasure
at the event was so great that she jumped
up suddenly, and in doing SO knocked a
revolver to the floor, causing it to be dis
charged. The ball entered the paralyzed
limb. The shock removed the paralyhc
effects and restored her speech.
The Baltimore SUMS Oakland cores
pondent SAYS: "a little over two years
ago the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany commenced sinking an artesian well
at Deer Park Hotel for the purpose OF Cd
tanning good supply of fresh water for the
hotel and cottages. saAt twenty-four leet
below the surface hard rock was encoun-
tered, and from the time the worEmen
struck it until Monday they have reached
a deptq of two thousand feet. After going
beyond the usual depth for fresh water
wells without obtaining supply, tine
work was continued in the hope OF strlk-
ing natural gas or some other product
which might become profitable. After the
HOLIDAYS, when the work is resumed, the
process of shooting the well'' will be gone
through with. The dynamite cartridges
for that purpose have been procured and
are on the ground. How much deeper the
company will sink this we'll or what the
result of the undertaking will be no body
seems to know"
There is a report in circulation that the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has
purchased the Proctor farm, near Pied
mont. which was formerly owned by the
late Wilson Proctor, of Baltimore, who
sold it several years ago to John Brady, OF
Cincinnati. The Proctor farm Is a Valua-
BILE piece of property, and lies between the
town of Oakland and Big Houghlogheny
river. adjoining Oakland on the west The
B. & o. road runs through the property,
and it is said the proposed road down the
Youghiogheny will connect with the man
line at this point, where extensive shops
will be built and other Improvements
made. Another report says that the COM
pany proposes to lengthen the divisions,
making only three divisions between Baltl-
more and the Ohio river, instead OF four,
as at present; that Piedmont will be the
end of division, and the Proctor farm
will be used for the erection Of extensive
shops, made necessary by the change.
1t looks as if President Hairy and his
West Virginia Railroad Company mean
business, and that their proposed road
from the Pennsylvania line via. Morgan
town and up Decker's creek to Newburg,
may be built speedily. Chief Engineer
Barrett and surveying corps were In
Fairmont last Tuesday on their way to
Morgantown to survey and locate the line
of the road, and the Morgantywn Dominion
says that they began active work on last
Wednesday morning. Mr.. HAIRY says the
work of construction will be commenced
as soon as the engineers get the survey
made, and that next summer will proba-
bly see the road completed. The building
of this line will no doubt stimulate the B.
& o. company to extend the F., Nj. u +.
through to Uniontown to connect with its
Pittsburg branch there, thus giving Nor
gantown two direct lines to the Iron City
On last Monday morning the workmen
in the B. & o. blacksmith shop at Grafton
were Mortified to see man staggering past
the shop with his face and clothing stream
ing with blood and red stream pouring
from his mouth. When opposite the door
he tainted and fell in the snow but was
quickly picked up by the men and carried
inside where everything possible was done
to relieve him and a messenger sent for
DIR. A. S. Warder, who soon arrived and In
a short time stopped the hemorrhage. The
man was an entire stranger, no one even
learning his name, and was very weak
from loss of blood A collection was
taken up for him by the men in the shop,
as he claimed he was in destitute clrcum-
stances, and q snug sum of money was
handed over to the stranger who left town
on train bound for the east.
David Hickman and William Roby,
of st. Mary's, have been mad" at each
other for some time. On last Monday
night David went to church. On his way
home William slipped upon him and began
to attack him with his fists; whereupon
Dave pulled out his pocket knife and sailed
in TO make sausage meat out of Will. The
conference was brief and animated. Will
liam received several severe cuts, losing
considerable blood, but is not in a danger
GUS condition. On Wednesday the case
was brought before Squire Barron, who
bound Hickman over to answer an lndict-
ment for cutting Roby with knife.
The formal opening of the new State
Houses at Charleston, last Wednesday
evening, with ball, was one of the most
successful society events ever occurring IN
West Virginia. Many visitors from abroad
were present, and all will bear testimony
to the success of the brilliant occasion.
The music was furnished by the Columbus
Barracks Band, and the repast was spread
in the State armory, it being gotten up by
Hawk Bros.
Last Tuesday evening at Jackson school
house, about four miles from Carlo,
Richie county, Silas NJ. Hoff, school
teacher, was very severely stabbed by g
man named James McGhee, aged Is,
There had been ill-feeling between the mer
for some time, but how the last quarrel
broke out is not definitely known. McGhet
made his escape into Ohio.
The latest from Hampshire is that many
wild hogs infest the mountains in some
parts of that county. 1t is reported by
good authority that one man, living in Oh
near place called Egypt, in the southern
part of the county, has killed sixty o.
them. They are said to be so ferociou'
that parents are afraid to send their chill
dren to school on account of them.
A girl named Westfall, an inmate of the
Braxton county poor house, made mar
row escape from being burned to death ont
day this week. Understanding in front Of
a crate her clothing became ignited, and il
was with difficulty the flames were extin'
guished. She was considerably burned
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